System of a Down live performance
⚠ BROADCAST LIVE
SYSTEM
OF A DOWN
EST. 1994 — YEREVAN/GLENDALE
The system is broken. The music is the proof. The silence is complicity.
STEAL THIS ALBUM. STEAL THIS TRUTH.
ENTER THE ARSENAL LIVE TRANSMISSIONS
◆ CHOP SUEY    ◆ TOXICITY    ◆ AERIALS    ◆ PRISON SONG    ◆ BOUNCE    ◆ B.Y.O.B    ◆ SOLDIER SIDE    ◆ SUGAR    ◆ QUESTION!    ◆ HYPNOTIZE    ◆ MEZMERIZE    ◆ REVENGA    ◆ DEER DANCE    ◆ CHOP SUEY    ◆ TOXICITY    ◆ AERIALS    ◆ PRISON SONG    ◆ B.Y.O.B    ◆ SOLDIER SIDE    ◆ SUGAR    ◆ QUESTION!   
"WAKE
UP."
Since 1994, System of a Down have refused to let the world forget what it wants to ignore: war crimes, prison industries, corporate control, and the human cost of silence. This is not entertainment. This is testimony.
Album
TOXICITY — 2001 — 11M+ COPIES
A protest record dressed as a metal album. Both Billboard #1 and Department of Defense watch list.
Heritage
ARMENIAN — DIASPORA — RESISTANCE
Four children of genocide survivors who turned memory into music that could melt concrete.
Stance
ANTI-WAR — ANTI-PRISON — ANTI-SILENCE
When Toxicity was released the day after 9/11, radio stations banned the album. They played it anyway.

THE ARSENAL

// DISCOGRAPHY
PINNACLE
TOXICITY
2001 — Columbia Records
The record that defined a generation's rage. Prison Song. Chop Suey. Aerials. An entire nation's disillusionment compressed into 40 minutes of controlled fury.
ANTI-WAR BANNED POST-9/11 #1 BILLBOARD
S/T
1998 — THE ORIGIN
Sugar, Spiders, Soil. Raw, frenetic, already fully formed.
STEAL THIS
ALBUM!
2002 — THE LEAK
Leaked B-sides turned into a manifesto. Literally encouraged piracy.
MEZMERIZE
2005 — PART ONE
B.Y.O.B. A declaration so violent and political even rock radio flinched.
HYPNOTIZE
2005 — PART TWO
Question! Holy Mountains. A requiem for a century of denial.
System of a Down live concert
⚠ LIVE TRANSMISSION

THE STAGE
IS A
COURTROOM

Every System of a Down performance is an act of testimony. Serj Tankian's voice — a five-octave instrument of rage, grief, satire, and love — turns concert halls into war crimes tribunals. Daron Malakian's riffs are the evidence.

"Wake up! Grab a brush and put a little makeup..." — a nursery rhyme for a generation that grew up watching its government lie in real time.
— TOXICITY, TRACK 5
"Why do they always send the poor?" — Four words that condemn an entire foreign policy. Two chords. Billboard #1.
— B.Y.O.B., 2005
THE FOUR
// Members
S
SERJ TANKIAN
Vocals / Keys / Composer
Political activist. Poet. Five octaves of fury and mourning.
D
DARON MALAKIAN
Guitar / Vocals / Architect
The riff machine. Primary songwriter. Cathartic chaos in E standard.
S
SHAVO ODADJIAN
Bass / Groove / Anchor
The low-end backbone. Holds the riot together while everything else falls apart.
J
JOHN DOLMAYAN
Drums / Percussion / Detonator
Technically devastating. The rhythm that makes B.Y.O.B. feel like an artillery strike.
DISPATCHES
// Causes
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION
Over two decades of advocacy, lobbying, and music in service of historical truth.
PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Prison Song named the system. 2.3 million incarcerated. Still waiting for reform.
ANTI-WAR / ANTI-OCCUPATION
B.Y.O.B. written as shock troops crossed into Iraq. Still relevant. Always will be.
CORPORATE MEDIA CONTROL
Clear Channel banned them. Their record label tried to silence them. The internet was louder.
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